Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)
Date: 1778
Nature: Proposed design. Spire added to mediaeval belfry tower. (Attribution of gateway to TC possibly implied by Casey & Rowan.)
Refs: 8 signed or initialled designs, 3 dated Jun 1778, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc.96/068.3/4/1-8; building accounts in NLI, MS 25304 (E.McP files); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 315,334; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 316.

Name: CHARLES, RICHARD [1]
Building: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)
Date: 1778-9
Nature: Co-operated with Thomas Cooley in building church for Lord Bective
Refs: Christopher Hussey, 'Headfort, Co. Meath', Country Life, 21 Mar 1936, 303.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)
Date: 1858
Nature: New chancel added.
Refs: B 16, 7 Aug 1858, 539

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)
Date: 1868a
Nature: Re-opened after extenisve alts (removal of box pews and replacement with open pews, reflooring with encaustic tiles and flagging, galleries reduced, organ enlarged, new pulpit and reading desk, chancel fitted with stalls and seats) 5 Aug 1868.
Refs: IB 10, 15 Aug 1868, 209;  Irish Churchman 1, no. 7, 15 Aug 1868, 98.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)
Date: 1878
Nature: Stained glass window erected as memorial to late Marquess of Headfort. Glass by Heaton, Butler & Co. Stonework by local builder, Henry Sharpe.
Refs: IB 20, 1 Nov 1878, 310;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 237, 1 Dec 1878, 356.

Name: HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *#
Building: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)
Date: 1878
Nature: Stained glass window erected as memorial to late Marquess of Headfort. Designed by J.F. Fuller.
Refs: IB 20, 1 Nov 1878, 310

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. MEATH, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST COLMCILLE (CI)
Date: 1894
Nature: Reopened 22 Nov 1894 after being damaged by gas explosion in Dec 1893. Old fabric restored and improved. Improvements include removal of plaster ceiling, new organ chamber off chancel, new chancel arch to replace existing square one, replacement of timber window frames with stone ones. Tenders invited, Mar 1894. Work carried out by F. St George Smith, Drogheda.
Refs: Irish Times, 9,10,12,21 Mar 1894; IB 36, 15 Mar,1 Dec 1894, 265.